S-HIS THORPEX Experiment Quicklook Page

IntroductionTHORPEX objectives are, 1) to evaluate the potential of various
in situ and remote sensing observation systems to provide the observations
needed to accelerate improvements in operational weather predictions, 2)
to evaluate model sensitivity studies and test the impact of targeted observations
by participant systems on the performance of those operational models,
and 3) to begin to acquire the observational data needed to develop intelligent
observing systems and the models and data assimilation systems that will
interact dynamically with those observing systems.

SoftwareS-HIS data are stored in network common data format (netCDF).
Programs for reading S-HIS data in this format are available in Fortran,
IDL, Matlab source code. To visualize S-HIS data, a Matlab browser
is available for basic image viewing.